5 
HON. SECRETARIES’ REPORT. 

IN presenting the Thirty-second Annual Report, your 
Committee have pleasure in recording a period of increased 
prosperity for the Society. 
The present membership of the Society is 971, made 
up as follows :— 
Honorary Members - - - 29 
Corresponding Members - - 24. 
Ordinary Members - - - 918 
Total - - -  g7I 


A careful perusal of the Balance Sheet will shew that 
the finances of the Society are in a thoroughly sound con- 
: dition, for although there has been an extraordinary 
expenditure of nearly £70 during the year, the deficit is 
only £8 1s. 7d., which your Committee feel confident 
will very soon be cleared off. 
This extraordinary expenditure has been caused mainly 
by this Society having been called upon to pay its portion 
(448 15s. 8d.) of the debt on the Museum Maintenance 
Fund; and by the repainting and redecorating of the 
Lecture Theatre, amounting to £16, which the Society 
voluntarily undertook to do. 
The attendance of Members at the Summer Excursions 
and Field Meetings, as well as at the General and Sectional 
Meetings held during the Winter months, has been quite 
up to the average. 
Your Committee have met fourteen times during the 
year for the transaction of the Society’s business; and the 
general attendance here shews an increase upon previous 
years. 
; There were eleven Excursions and Field Meetings 
held during the Summer months, as follows :— 











1902. 
Beeston Castle and the Peckforton’ Hills . , TAO ee May 28th 
Burton Point and the Denhall Foreshore. rece June 4th 
Rhydymwyn and “The Leet” .......,...., anaes » IIth 
Bache Hall Gardens and Pinetum ......... nope », Igth 
Dawpool, West Kirby, and Hilbre Island aa y 9th 
Tarvin and Hockenhull Platts (Cycling Excursion) .. ,, 16th 
Shotwick Park, Woods, and Gardens .,.,. bsieiaras aera s/ae SUC 
Delamere Forest and Meres ........ ......... 00. » 30th 
Aston Hall Colliery and Hawarden .., + eeeceeeeees August 27th 
MS Ge eek ue sarees’ September 3rd 
Sandycroft Engineering Works.................... - 17th 
At the Conversazione held in October last, there were 
2roposed no fewer than 45 new Members, which made the 
d total of membership up to over one thousand; this 
